The enshitification must grow.

One of the first things I needed to do after creating a Lemmy instance was block all the AI bots from scraping everything. It only took a day before ChatGPT, AmazonBot and Alibaba came crawling through. Alibaba was the most annoying as it didn’t even identify itself properly, as mentioned in the article, it looks like an Edge browser.

AI Scrapers and AI bug reports ddos’ing every git repo. JFC